Stock Take: Delivering improvements in existing housing

[biffvernon]

The Sustainable Development Commision has published a document, downloadable from here:
Stock Take: Delivering improvements in existing housing
on what we should do with our houses. There's lots of worthy stuff about energy use, saving and generation in the 100 page report from this influential body.

Much of it is very sensible but this sentence caught my eye:

Homes already built account for 99% of our total housing stock.

I'm trying to work out what the other 1% is. Any suggestions?

[isenhand]

Cardboard boxes, mobile homes, camper vans, cars?

[Pippa]

A really interesting report, I've added to my favourites.

I don't know what the time scale is but the other 1% comes from housing currently in construction or in the planning process. It also includes somehow a percentage of housing that is due for demolition; neatly knocking off (or down) some of the 100%.

Well, that's how I read it anyway.

Maybe though, they should include a % for the homeless - they are very energy efficient afterall!

[ianryder]

Maybe though, they should include a % for the homeless - they are very energy efficient afterall!

Hmm...I disagree - I used to work for Crisis and there was a whole lot of energy wasted there mainly on recruitment, not to mention all the energy wasted by the government in trying to make it look like there were only 3 homeless people left in London